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From: robert@hemingway.WEITEK.COM (Robert Plamondon)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: ventura
Message-ID: <775@hemingway.WEITEK.COM>
Date: 17 May 89 18:31:19 GMT
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Reply-To: robert@hemingway.WEITEK.COM (Robert Plamondon)
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In article <8905160047.AA12857@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@UXE.CSO.UIUC.EDU ("J.D. McDonald ") writes:
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>But there seems to be another point too. The output that comes out
>of either HP LaserJets using the regular HP Times-like font,
>or the Times like fonts from Bitstream, or the output from an
>Apple Laserwriter using the built-in fonts, or the blurbs I got
>from our Printing Division which were printed on a Linotronic
>300 (1270 or 2540 d.p.i. - who cares) just doesn't look like 
>a plain ordinary printed BOOK. Somehow, however good they look,
>they just don't look "right", by which I mean look like any
>ordinary high quality (technical) book printed before, say, 1982.

Most manufacturers are cursed with ugly fonts.  Times Roman is not a
very attractive font in any implentation, and it looks very bad at
300 dpi.  Furthermore, scalable fonts, such as Bitstream's
Fontware-generated fonts and Adobe's PostScript fonts, always look
worse than hand-tuned fonts.

I find Bitstream's Goudy Old Style to be fairly attractive. In
general, you should look at everybody's fonts and pick the ones that
seem to fit your application best. I also recommend that you read the
book, "The ABCs of typography," which is a good introduction to the
uses of type.

	-- Robert
-- 
    Robert Plamondon
    robert@weitek.COM
    "No Toon can resist the old 'Shave and a Hair-Cut'"